First off I didn't get tricked I enjoy their services. Secondly your website has links to faceblog and other weaponized sex apps. Who needs a lecture from who on malicious websites?
TurboTax Tricked You into Paying to File Your Taxes (2019)
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Re: TurboTax Tricked You into Paying to File Your Taxes (2019)
#62Use Freetaxusa.com instead. Much cheaper. Faster and better. Plus they don't use their profits to purposely complicate tax laws.
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#63I used to say turbo tax wasn't that bad, and that free filing was easy if you just ignored their promises to save you money if you upgraded. Last year however I got all the way to the end of the process where they revealed I made too much and had to pay. That felt extremely unethical, as the information required to come to that conclusion was available far earlier in the process. And yet what am I going to do but use…
Credit Karma is free. Works great, and has no discernable dark patterns. They even have import features from major payroll companies like ADP. I had to quit turbotax because one year I was a 1099 worker and every year since, it pushes me to go with their "small business edition." Each year it got harder to avoid "upgrading." Seriously, just do it. Quitting TT is so much easier than quitting anything else.
Didn’t intuit acquire credit karma? Will this be the last year of a separate ck tax product?
Re: TurboTax Tricked You into Paying to File Your Taxes (2019)
#64I used to say turbo tax wasn't that bad, and that free filing was easy if you just ignored their promises to save you money if you upgraded. Last year however I got all the way to the end of the process where they revealed I made too much and had to pay. That felt extremely unethical, as the information required to come to that conclusion was available far earlier in the process. And yet what am I going to do but use…
https://www.freetaxusa.com/
That is the good site you want to use.
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#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'll flip the question around... How is lobbying different than random voter talking to their representative in person? It isn't really - a lobbyist is just exercising the free speech available to all individuals - they just happen to be doing it on behalf of a group of individuals. I'm purposefully ignoring the whole "corporations are people" aspect because that's a different discussion. But, what you seem to be arg…
Money. Receiving money is the fundamental difference between lobbying and discussing policy with constituents.
I'm free to donate directly to a campaign.
I'm also free to pool my resources with my neighbors and donate as a block.
Like I said (in the edit), the problem is campaign financing, not lobbying. The two are related in the US, but we can probably fix financing without impeding free speech.
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
Credit Karma is free. Works great, and has no discernable dark patterns. They even have import features from major payroll companies like ADP. I had to quit turbotax because one year I was a 1099 worker and every year since, it pushes me to go with their "small business edition." Each year it got harder to avoid "upgrading." Seriously, just do it. Quitting TT is so much easier than quitting anything else.
> Credit Karma is free. That just makes me wonder what Credit Karma is getting out of the deal.
They tell you. Advertising dollars for financial products.
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's because his comment is essentially "Republicans are evil and the US should be more like Europe." Even if you agree with that, by now you're probably tired of seeing it on every single thread everywhere.
If there are any republican commentators willing to defend this policy I'd love to hear their reasoning. This one does seem, almost objectively, evil imo.
Where are you getting this bizarre assumption that the average Republican commentator would side with Intuit here?
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
Credit Karma is free. Works great, and has no discernable dark patterns. They even have import features from major payroll companies like ADP. I had to quit turbotax because one year I was a 1099 worker and every year since, it pushes me to go with their "small business edition." Each year it got harder to avoid "upgrading." Seriously, just do it. Quitting TT is so much easier than quitting anything else.
> Credit Karma is free. That just makes me wonder what Credit Karma is getting out of the deal.
“wonder”
The DOJ forced them to sell that whole unit if they wanted to be acquired because of the super obvious data mining consolidation
Re: TurboTax Tricked You into Paying to File Your Taxes (2019)
#69This is a link to actual free turbotax and hr block: https://www.turbotaxsucksass.com/
It was on Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj
Re: TurboTax Tricked You into Paying to File Your Taxes (2019)
#70Funny anecdote, I've been using TurboTax installable for a decade or so (having given up on doing them completely by hand). Been considering hiring a professional because you always hear that they are worth their weight in gold. (Our tax situation is not particularly complicated though, typical Silicon Valley married homeowners). Well, last year, did everything in turbotax, said we were short by like 15k. Believable,…
Similar boat, except also with a kid and a nanny. The year we had to deal with employer taxes for the nanny we tableflipped and stopped doing taxes by hand, going to HR Block instead. Was tempted to try an accountant but the HRB product seemed solid enough to just go with it every year after. Anecdotally it finds credits/refunds that I know I would never have found on a manual tax return. It's not a ton of money but it saves a lot of work.